Normally when this is asked, people think about reviving, curing, resurrecting. This question is about who you save if you were transported to a time a little before their death, like maybe a day before or even a week before. Anything about terminal illnesses or diseases contracted don’t really count here because, when those things happen, they happen and there’s really nothing you could do to have prevented it.
I think I would’ve wanted to prevent JFK’s assassination. I’d tell him “dude, do not get in that limo and drive down Elm Street” and I’d show him a newspaper clip of the day of his assassination. I’d probably be looked at a little crazily and suspected of maybe being involved in something that pertains to that day. But, it’s an effort I would’ve gone through to do that.
No “famous” person. Two families that are friends of mine. Both have lost a child at ages 8 / 10 from accidents, and they could never really get over it and it has changed their lives so much.
By that standard… All the Palestinians, Cubans, Peruvian, Lebanese, Libyans, Vietnamese, Iranians, Koreans, Africans , Eastern Europeans, Asians etc etc etc who really just wanted to build a better society for themselves and their descendants, probably even the world that the empire couldn’t allow to live and do that.